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Eugene Debs said of that strike, "The Victory at Lawrence was the most decisive and far-reaching ever won by organized labor."Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood, Peter Carlson, 1983, page 190

Wary of war with the anti-capitalist IWW, some mill owners swallowed their hatred of unions and actually invited the AFL to organize their workers.Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood, Peter Carlson, 1983, page 190

's death was significant to both sides in the struggle

Ardis Cameron describes the immigrant's world in which Anna LoPizzo dwelled

Relying on old-world practices and principles of collectivity, the immigrant community routinely "swapped" names and falsified documents to evade "impossible" laws and ensure mutual survival...Radicals of the Worst Sort

Fred Thompson's book The I.W.W

Its First Seventy Years states that, On Jan. 29 a peaceful parade of the strikers was charged by the militia, and officer Oscar Benoit firing into the crowd, hit striker Anna Lo Pezza (sic), killing her.The I.W.W

The death of Anna LoPizzo was used by the authorities during the Lawrence strike as a means of disrupting and pressuring the union

's death on the picket line had given the authorities a chance to remove the two main organizers from action for the duration of the strike, but it also became a rallying cry for the workers to demand justice